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The President of Chile Michelle Bachelet meets senior ESO Director General Tim de Zeeuw. [1] In 2011, [2] Chile was home to 42% of the world's astronomical infrastructure, consisting principally of telescopes. In 2015, it was estimated that Chile would contain more than 50% of the global astronomical infrastructure by 2030. [3]
The National Astronomical Observatory of Chile (Spanish: Observatorio Astronómico Nacional de Chile - OAN) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Department of Astronomy of the University of Chile (UCh). It is located on Cerro Calán, a hill in the commune of Las Condes.
These include the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA, Chile, and the USA), REUNA [128] (Chile), Florida International University (USA), AmLightExP [127] (USA), RNP [129] (Brazil), and SLAC USDF (USA), all of which participate in the LSST Network Engineering Team (NET). This collaboration designs and delivers end-to-end ...
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international astronomy facility, is a partnership of Europe, North America and East Asia in cooperation with the Republic of Chile.
Chile portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to Observatories in Chile . This category is for articles about astronomical observatories in the South American country of Chile .
On 15 November 1963 Chile was chosen as the site for ESO's observatory. [16] Directors general of ESO (from left to right): Lodewijk Woltjer, Harry van der Laan, Catherine Cesarsky, Tim de Zeeuw and Xavier Barcons. A preliminary proposal for a convention of astronomy organisations in these five countries was drafted in 1954.
In the first decade of the 21st century, there has been a new wave of observatory construction at very high altitudes above 4,500 m (14,800 ft), with such observatories constructed in India, Mexico, and most notably the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, now the site of several of the world's highest observatories.
The VISTA (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) is a wide-field reflecting telescope with a 4.1 metre mirror, located at the Paranal Observatory in Chile.It is operated by the European Southern Observatory and started science operations in December 2009.